Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 55248

Category 5 - DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SERVICES

55248

55248 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:

01-Nov-1997

Description Start Date:

01-Nov-2001

Schedule Fee Start Date:

01-Nov-2004

Group

I1 - Ultrasound

Subgroup

3 - Vascular

DUPLEX SCANNING, unilateral, involving B mode ultrasound imaging and integrated Doppler flow measurements by spectral analysis of arteries or bypass grafts in the upper limb OR of arteries and bypass grafts in the upper limb, not being a service associated with a service to which an item in Subgroups 1 (with the exception of item 55054) or 4 of this Group applies - (R)

Associated Notes

Category 5 - DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SERVICES

IN.0.19

Bulk Billing Incentive

To provide an incentive to bulk-bill, for out of hospital services that are bulk billed the schedule fee is reduced by 5% and rebates paid at 100% of this revised fee (except for item 61369, and all items in Group I5 - Magnetic Resonance Imaging). For items in Group I5 - Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the bulk billing incentive for out of hospital services is 100% of the Schedule Fee listed in the table.